Hello PerlWin32Users List, I am trying to compile the Perl 5 module Win32::API (http://dada.perl.it/) on WinNT4 sp6 using MinGW - gcc-2.95.2.1 and having a rough go of it with the xs code. The compilation fails because this code has an undeclared identifier: --- console output, watch for wrapping -- Reading L:/develperl/site/lib/Make.pm Reading L:\develperl\usr\manual_build\Win32-API-0.20\makefile gcc -c -g -O2 -DWIN32 -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX - DPERL_POLLUTE -g -O2 -DVERSION=\"0.20\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.20\" - I..\..\..\lib\CORE API.c API.xs: In function `AbstractCallback': API.xs:52: `_asm' undeclared (first use in this function) API.xs:52: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once API.xs:52: for each function it appears in.) API.xs:52: parse error before `{' API.xs: At top level: API.xs:56: parse error before string constant API.xs:56: warning: data definition has no type or storage class API.xs: In function `XS_Win32__API_Call': API.xs:282: `_asm' undeclared (first use in this function) API.xs:282: parse error before `{' API.xs:290: parse error before `{' API.xs:298: parse error before `{' API.xs:306: parse error before `{' API.xs:316: parse error before `{' API.xs:326: parse error before `{' API.xs:342: parse error before `{' API.xs:351: parse error before `{' Code 256 from gcc -c -g -O2 -DWIN32 -fno-strict-aliasing - DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -DPERL_POLLUTE -DVERSION=\"0.20\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.20\" - I..\..\..\lib\CORE API.c at L:/develperl/site/l ib/Make.pm line 265. --- code snippet quote w/ line nos., watch for wrapping -- # from Win32-API-0.20/API.xs 48 49 void AbstractCallback() { 50 51 LPBYTE self; 52 _asm { 53 pop eax 54 mov dword ptr self, eax 55 } 56 printf("AbstractCallback: got eax=%ld\n", self); 57 } 58 --- end code snippet quote ------------------------------ So, this _asm critter seems to be the first problem to tackle. I think the possibility exists that some #define isn't happening, that needs to, and maybe it's one that the MSVC would do by default (but not MinGW). The author of this module, Aldo 'dada' Calpini, uses MSVC++ to build his binaries. Nobody that I know of has built this mod using something else. Anybody here done so? Or: anybody (perhaps familiar with xs and Win32/MSVC++) got any insights? Thanks Much, soren andersen P.S. BTW -- I just built Win32::Clipboard to this Perl using the build environment being described above, and I found a bit of a showstopper in dada's source files that I fixed. Anybody wanna know about it? _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
